person
Mira Murati
Founder of Thinking Machines Lab; former OpenAI CTO
Served as OpenAI CTO and briefly as interim CEO in the November 2023 board crisis. Left OpenAI in September 2024 to start Thinking Machines Lab focused on fundamental AI research.
Profile
expertise
Frontier builder
Currently or recently led training, architecture, or safety work on a frontier model. Hands on the loss curve.
Former CTO of OpenAI; led ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL·E, Sora launches. Founded Thinking Machines Lab (2025). Hands-on technical leader at frontier scale.
recognition
Household name
Name recognition outside the AI/CS community. Featured by mainstream press, a Wikipedia page in many languages, a published bestseller, or holds a position the lay public knows.
TIME100 2024. Briefly OpenAI interim-CEO during November 2023 board episode. Mainstream press regular.
vintage
Deep-learning rise
Came up post-AlexNet. ImageNet, AlphaGo, transformer paper. DeepMind, Google Brain, FAIR establish the modern lab template.
Tesla Model X 2014; OpenAI VP Applied 2018; CTO 2022. Her operational career maps to the deep-learning era.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Existential primacyendorses
Extinction/disempowerment risk overrides ordinary cost-benefitSignatory to the Statement on AI Risk.
“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.